The move would allow members of the Counties Transit Improvement Board to levy more local taxes for transit, allow each the flexibility to jump-start projects, and depend less on the State Legislature for funding.

Those accomplishments include growing ridership, expanding access, advances in sustainability and overall success in system safety. Metro Transit was selected among agencies from across North America that provide more than 20 million annual passenger trips.

Ever wonder what happens to the dollars and coins you place in the fare boxes on buses and at light rail pay stations? Here's a behind the scenes look at Metro Transit's Central Counting Department, where a team of revenue processing specialists sort and stack piles of bills, feed mountains of coins through machines and organize them by denomination. Published Nov 19, 2015

The Metropolitan Council, which oversees Metro Transit, asserted the videos were non-public because they contained "personnel data" that could not be separated from the public portions of the video. The court ordered the Met Council to turn the videos over to KSTP.